Founding Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Founding Engineer (AI/Fintech): Building an AI-native compliance platform for community banks with an accent on agentic reasoning, RAG systems, and large-scale document ingestion. Focus on architecting a secure, enterprise-grade system and productionizing AI workflows for financial crime compliance.

Location: Must be based in the San Francisco Bay Area

Company

hirify.global is building an AI-native compliance intelligence layer to modernize financial crime compliance for community banks and financial institutions.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate RAG and agentic systems over complex financial data with clear evaluation metrics for accuracy and latency.
• Develop scalable backend services for document processing (PDF/OCR/CSV), async job queues, and risk scoring.
• Own the productionization of AI systems, including evaluation pipelines, dataset management, and safe rollout strategies.
• Harden the platform for enterprise requirements, including auth controls, RBAC, audit trails, and monitoring.
• Establish CI/CD, deployment pipelines, and incident response practices from the ground up.
• Collaborate directly with the founding team to define the technical roadmap and product architecture.

Requirements

• 1+ years of experience on technical projects, with startup experience strongly preferred.
• Strong TypeScript and Python skills across modern frontend and backend stacks.
• Hands-on experience shipping LLM integrations or RAG systems into production user-facing products.
• Experience with document processing, entity extraction, and structured data extraction from messy sources.
• Solid grasp of API design, relational databases, and async job processing systems.
• Location: Must be based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of KYC/KYB/AML workflows, sanctions screening, or regulated fintech.
• Experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar AI orchestration frameworks.
• Familiarity with banking APIs, core banking systems, or financial data providers.
• Background in fintech, compliance, RegTech, or other regulated industries.
• Cloud deployment and DevOps knowledge in security-sensitive environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package.
• 100% health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Commuter stipend.
• Regular team events and off-sites.